Chaslands: Pioneering Days in Southern New Zealand

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Page 103The small river which was being followed held a tremendous eel population; and
if you bring Maoris and eels into contact you will have action, but not work. When
the months with "r" in them came round and the eels were out, the grub-getting ...

Page 128The chief denizens of the Hooki-Hook were eels, lobsters and water-rats, the
latter apparently of a different kind from the tree-rats which built the great round
nests of holly-bark on high shrubs or on the wide branches of the hollies
themselves.

Page 135The big eels of the days of the Silent Nine will have been followed by many
generations of other big eels, now safe from the deceptive huhu grub bobs.
Wallace Beach will be deserted; for it is a weary time since old Harry Finley was
carried out ...